#superhero comics

[akaessi]

a moment of mourning for all the female comic characters who; get nerfed with every reset, their origins changed at random whims, sexist outfit/personality changes, are constantly left out of fanart for their team (!!), are boiled down to simple girlfriends for male superheroes, and then after everything...are thrown aside because they aren't "marketable" enough

[magnetothemagnificent]

Let's make a superhero!

First off: a general backstory

Military

Circus

Wealthy

Alien

Jew

Religious entity

Voting ended onJan 19

[mashounen2003]

For all the talk about Batman's no-kill rule and why it has to be a thing and how much it's the proof that it makes superhero stories worse, it's shown quite a lot in canon, both in comics and in cartoons, that Batman's methods do work pretty well. We have Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Mr Freeze (who's still shoehorned into villain roles sometimes from what I've heard, but everyone tacitly agrees this is dumb), and I guess Catwoman is still doing her own thing and being an annoying wild card at worst.

It's just that both writers and readers straight-up forget about all those successful examples and focus so much on the Joker, the one villain who seems to be doing villain things with the very specific purpose of forcing Batman to break his no-kill rule.

So, people looking from the outside see this and think "Clearly, no-kill rules are always bad and the entire superhero genre is dumb". Either that, or they get the impression that these stories' underlying message (perhaps even intended by the writers) is actually "Batman is wrong, rehabilitating criminals doesn't work, these comics show why", which in turn lures all the terminally online Armchair Sociologists who then start ranting about the superhero genre inherently being food for fascists.

[sonofalkhalilzine]

🖤Meet our Kara Zor-El🤍

💚Art by our talented contributor @dandeidolon ❤️

Kara was sent to Earth to protect her baby cousin.

Instead, she arrives to find him already grown; no longer Kal-El of Krypton, but Khalil of Palestine. Superman.

She survives the destruction of her homeworld only to land in another world shaped by occupation, displacement, grief, and survival. Palestine becomes her second home not because it is peaceful, but because people continue loving, rebuilding, laughing, resisting, and protecting one another despite everything being done to break them.

Kara is impulsive, emotional, reactive, and deeply empathetic. She carries immense survivor’s guilt from Krypton and an almost self-destructive need to protect others from experiencing the same loss she did. She believes no one deserves to be dehumanized, and when confronted with cruelty toward defenseless people, she struggles to stay restrained.

Her greatest fear is not death.

It is becoming a weapon.

A symbol emptied of humanity.

But Kara still chooses hope anyway. Not because she believes the world is fair but because believing people are still capable of goodness is, for her, a moral choice.

[the-dragon-hearted]

It is amazing to me how many people in comics or shows discover a superhero's secret identity and then REVEAL it! Like???

If I found out my nice neighbor who helped me jumpstart my car at the god awful hour of 5am was Superman? NOBODY'S GETTING SHIT FROM ME I KNOW NOTHING!

a) bro can shoot lazer eyes

b) bro is minding his own business, I can do the same

c) The moment I start blabbing I get involved and I DO NOT want to be involved with the day to day life of a fuckin superhero. So I don't know shit, okay?

My lawyer's some vigilante. Sounds like a conflict of interest but what do I look like? A cop? My trash collector is a superhero? Anyway, thanks buddy, have a great one, say hi to the kids for me. I watched my waiter at McDonalds absolutely throw hands with a supervillain. That's crazy, anyway here's a 30% tip in cash. Good luck with those student loans.

Like I am not getting involved with ANYYYYY of that. Uh uh, no way, I don't see shit. I am just trying to make it to the end of the day without being kidnapped, held hostage, tortured, or interrogated and the best way to do that is keep. My. Damn. Mouth. Shut.

[librarygoth]

harley quinn (2021) #48

[the-phantasmic-plastic-stan]

me and the boys having a normal moment